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DAYTON – The Columbia County Health System has hired Dr. Kurt Frauenpreis as the newest member of its team. Dr. Frauenpreis has just signed the contract and will begin seeing patients at Columbia Family Clinic, in Dayton, and at Dayton General Hospital in mid-July, according to CCHS interim CEO Jon Smiley. Dr. Frauenpreis, who received his MD from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 1988, comes to Columbia County from the Pinedale Medical Clinic in Pinedale, Wyoming. He completed his residency at the University of O...
Local children celebrated Earth Day last week at Best Western Plus of Dayton . . ....
WAITSBURG – A recent rash of burglaries may adversely affect numbers for 2015, but crime statistics for Waitsburg dropped in nearly every category between 2013 and 2014. Walla Walla County Sheriff John Turner presented comparison statistics that evidence what he called a “pretty significant decrease” at the April 15 Waitsburg City Council Meeting. The only crime category to show an increase was motor vehicle theft which increased from zero in 2013 to three in 2014. Turner made special note...
DAYTON – Azure Mountain made a subtle entrance to downtown Dayton retail this spring, opening a handcrafted, artisan soap shop next door to Manila Bay Café on East Main Street. No grand opening or "loud" signs or displays in the window have alerted visitors and locals to the new shop, which is just how Art and Brenda Hall want it. "We want people to see our sign and be curious enough to come inside and see what we have to offer," Brenda said. And the couple both work full time, so the shop is on...
DAYTON – Jeannie Lyonnais has joined the team in the Dayton Elementary School office this month as full-time secretary. Her smiling face is new to the front desk but not to the district. She has worked at the school for the last 28 years on and off. Jeannie and her husband, Kim Lyonnais, moved to Dayton in 1986. They were both born and raised in Spokane. Kim is now the Columbia County Planning Director, a department he has managed in the past but took a short break from to work in planning in W...
DAYTON – Anna Steinhoff is determined to find beauty even in everyday life. She makes rings and necklaces out of bullet casings and Swarovski crystals and crafts bracelets out of leather and metal. This Dayton mother and wife, though not, she insists, a "girly girl," has carved a niche in the local jewelry business – and her pieces are on sale now at Azure Mountain on East Main Street. "It's awesome to see something I made on a complete stranger," she said. Like Art and Brenda Hall, who hav...
A Washington State Penitentiary crew was hard at work, Friday, April 24, removing the old vinyl liner and fiberglass from the Waitsburg City Pool, in preparation for the installation of a new spray-in liner. . ....
WAITSBURG – For foreign exchange student Alex Pietrzyk, leaving his home in Düsseldorf, Germany, with a population of nearly 600,000, to spend a year attending school in Waitsburg was a major adjustment. "When I learned I was coming to a town this size it was a bit of a shock," Pietrzyk said. "'What will there be to do?' I thought." But he has now grown accustomed to small town life and says he anticipates a reverse adjustment in getting used to the noise and bustle of the city upon his return h...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Celebration Days Planning Committee has named the Celebration Days weekend ATV ride the “Karen Huwe Mohney Memorial ATV Poker Ride” in honor of Waitsburg native Karen Huwe Mohney, who passed away, unexpectedly, on March 15. “Karen was the idea-woman behind this event and motivated everyone she touched,” said fellow organizer Lisa Naylor. The ride is planned for Saturday, May 16 at 1 p.m. Riders will depart from the Waitsburg Fairgrounds to follow the 35-plus mile cour...
Dayton High School FBLA received awards in a number of events at the state Business Leadership Conference in Spokane earlier this month. Two Dayton members are serving as state officers: Taylor Frame serves as state parliamentarian, and Keelin Hovrud is the southeast region vice president. Taylor Frame placed first in Local Chapter Annual Business Report, and her work in this area lead to DHS receiving a chapter Gold Seal recognition. Frame and Keelin Hovrud placed first in Desktop Publishing....
This year's Columbia County Fair Hostesses, in the center not wearing hats (l to r) Katie White and Mary McHaffie, were joined by fair royalty . . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested two of Washington's most-wanted criminals here last Wednesday night during a traffic stop in the 800 block of East Main Street. The couple, 29-year-old Jose Isidro Cisneros of Pasco and 22-year-old Breanne Nicole Rutherford of Walla Walla, were part of a Washington's Most Wanted report posted April 11 online. U.S. Marshals in the Tri-Cities, Pasco police and Department of Corrections officers out of Walla Walla were hunting for this w...
STARBUCK – The Washington Economic Development Finance Authority has approved issuance of $110 million in non-recourse revenue bonds to Columbia Pulp, LLC. The bonds will cover construction costs for the planned 449-acre wheat straw refuse recovery and paper pulp manufacturing facility to be located on Highway 261 near Starbuck, according to Columbia Pulp President John Begley. “It still has to go through a fairly detailed process, which will probably take about eight weeks,” Begley told The T...
WAITSBURG – After several years of dedicated effort, the Regional Way-Finding System Project has finally entered its final phase: the installation of the road and pedestrian signs that will brand the Touchet Valley corridor. Port of Columbia Manager Jennie Dickinson and Tourism Walla Walla Executive Director Ron Peck presented an update on the project to Waitsburg's city council at their April 15 meeting. With sign designs recently approved, Dickinson asked that Waitsburg keep the project in m...
DAYTON – After months of deliberation, Columbia County Commissioners decided on April 15 to switch power providers for the county courthouse and the county public works building from Pacific Power & Light to Columbia Rural Electric Association. Representatives from both utility providers were present at the board meeting, but relatively little discussion took place. Commissioners Mike Talbott and Dwight Robanske voted in favor of the switch; Commissioner Merle Jackson was opposed. “My tho...
The "Peleton" rolled through downtown Waitsburg Sunday, as riders prepared to start the Kellogg Hollow Road Race . . ....
First Appearance/Arraignment: Michael A. West, 37, Dayton; entered not-guilty plea on charges of residential burglary – domestic violence with sexual motivation, a Class B felony, and violation of a no-contact order – domestic violence with sexual motivation, a gross misdemeanor. These crimes allegedly occurred on Sept. 30, 2014, while West was on a court-granted 24-hour furlough from Columbia County Jail. West is currently incarcerated in Columbia County Jail without bail. Zachary T. Koehler, 27, College Place; first appearance on charge of...
DAYTON – Columbia County has its eye on Seneca property neighboring the county public works office on North Guernsey Avenue, including the much-used activity center and well-known "Labor Camp" on Green Giant Camp Road. This information was revealed during last week's county commissioner meeting when Ginny Butler, with the Dayton Historical Depot Society, requested that her organization have access to the site to document and record the long history present there before the county made any c...
DAYTON – Columbia County jumped from 24th in state health rankings to 12th between last year’s assessment and now, Public Health Director Martha Lanman reported to county commissioners last week. The county’s biggest improvements were in access to exercise opportunities, mental health providers and diabetic monitoring, according to the report provided by County Health Rankings – many of these were community health areas targeted by local wellness programs in the last year. “It shows that all...
DAYTON – Columbia County Fair Board members have appealed to Columbia County Commissioners several times this year, including at last week’s board meeting, to approve a plan intended to make enough improvements to the East Grandstands at the county fairgrounds that the space can be used at events where the newly repaired West Grandstands are standing room only. Commissioners and County Engineer Andrew Woods are concerned that the current plan, while proposing some critical repairs to the unu...
Dayton youth enjoy a Monday evening this week at the juvenile fishing pond at the Dayton City Park. Fish & Wildlife, with the local Salmon Recovery Board, replaced a filter at the pond this month so it could be filled and stocked....
WAITSBURG – If there's ever a fitting time for double the celebration it is this May's Waitsburg Celebration Days weekend, which also commemorates the city's 150th anniversary. The first-ever Waitsburg Celebration Days co-queens were crowned in a coronation ceremony at the Waitsburg Elementary School multipurpose room on Saturday. In a flashback to 10 years ago, Brittany Artz and Kimberly Smith were crowned co-queens for the 92nd Days of Real Sport in 2005. This year, Devon Harshman and A...
WAITSBURG - A female Tour of Walla Walla cyclist was injured and reportedly rendered unconscious in a bicycle crash that took place on McKay-Alto Road north of Waitsburg during the race Sunday afternoon. Waitsburg Ambulance Service responded to the call and transported the cyclist to Waitsburg Elementary School playground where a Life Flight helicopter landed at approximately 4:25 p.m. to pick up the victim. She was reportedly being transported to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. The...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg’s current mayor and city council members ran unopposed in the 2015 elections this month and were sworn in by City Admininstrator Randy Hinchliffe at the April 15 City Council meeting. Mayor Walt Gobel said he was disappointed to see that Izzy the Camel failed to receive his traditional write-in vote this year. Hinchliffe said 157 voters cast ballots which is 30 shy of the year prior. Gobel was re-elected mayor, for his third one-year term, with 117 votes. The following ind...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Historical Society is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the burglar(s) who made three separate break-ins to Waitsburg museum properties last week. The first break-in, to the Bruce House Memorial Museum, was discovered on Wednesday afternoon. Thursday morning, it was discovered that the adjoining Wilson-Phillips House had also been burglarized. On Friday, board members discovered the thief had made a second entry into the B...